In the 16th Century the Roman Catholic Church had its own way of interpreting salvation. It was common for folks to greatly sin and then have their sins be washed away with a great load of currency. Roman Catholicism was the dominant form of Christianity since 4th century. During this era the Church provided all of the social services for everyone. The people were used to having the church be a part of their everyday lives from birth to adulthood. Priest would baptize, marry, and actually be one of the only people who could read who was of access to the entire church. The church relied so much on the priest to provide them all their information. It came to a point where one day someone realized that the Church was actually running things in an unfair way. He then decided to handle things on his own and steer the church in a brighter direction. Martin Luther was his name. It all began with a man whose name was Johann Tetzel. He went around town trying to sell some indulgences to people and claimed that it would help them be saved. Martin Luther really disagreed with this logic and felt that no such thing was right to do. He then wrote a 95 thesis about all the questions he had and propositions he wanted to debate. Martin Luther had a huge one in mind. He realized that in the Church the congregation was half lost when it came to …show more content…
He felt it was necessary for the congregation to be fully aware of the lyrics being sung in church and understand it themselves. So he then came up with the idea of chorale music. Chorale music was very different than other music. With chorale the rhythms were slowed down and the music was paired up with words. Best of all it was written in German and it opened up the idea of fully understanding church. Chorale music used what is known called contrafactum, which is when a well-known secular tune is used over and over again but continues to have the same